2011/04/01

First you used dd to grab the entire contents of a disk. Now you want to copy that disk to another one. Only the new disk isn't the exact same size as the old one, and probably doesn't have the same geometery. In which case you would be better off doing an rsync then dd to the new disk. The following trick will also work if you just want to read a partition.

About Me

I am a self-employed programmer. I program computers for a living. This also means I spend half my time as a sysadmin. The annoying half. I work nearly exclusively with Linux and Perl.
All this goes to say that NO, I WILL NOT HELP YOU FIX YOUR COMPUTER.